Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ezra Taft Benson

Contention in our families drives the Spirit of the Lord away. It also drives many of our family members away. Contention ranges from a hostile spoken word to worldwide conflicts. The scriptures tell us that "Only by pride cometh contention".

Ezra Taft Benson

The proud wish God would agree with them. They are not interested in changing their opinions to agree with God's.

Ezra Taft Benson

Pride is ugly. It says 'If you succeed I am a failure.'

Evelyn Ashford

I take pride in everything I do. I don't want to be handed anything. I want to earn it.

Francis Chan

It's pride, plain and simple, that keeps me from giving God all the glory and keeping some of it for myself. It is a battle we all fight in some form or another, some of us daily or even hourly.

Francine Pascal

She figured if you weren't woman enough to carry your doughnuts with pride, you shouldn't be eating them.

Francis Bacon

He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

I've been blessed. I pride myself on my motivation.

Billy Graham

We have been proud and thought we were better than any other race, any other people. Ladies and gentlemen, we are going to stumble into hell because of our pride.

Billy Graham

Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.

Roger Milla

Don?t just go there and play. Go there and play with pride and show your ambitions.

Sheherazade Goldsmith

My vegetable patch is my pride and joy.

Sherwood Anderson

Whereas God, for reasons of His own, sometimes chooses to let the machine answer. 'The Supreme Being is unavailable to come to the phone at this time, but He wants you to know what your call is important to Him. In the meantime, for sins of pride, press one. For avarice, press two...

Sherry Argov

Relationship Principle 1 In romance, there's nothing more attractive to a man than a woman who has dignity and pride in who she is.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Then what good is he? (Maggie) I ask myself every friggin’ day exactly what you did. What good am I? The answer is simple. There’s nothing good about me and I like it that way. Pride myself on it, in fact. (Savitar)

Nicolas Chamfort

The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.

Nicolas Cage

I try not to be proud. I try to actively attack pride.

Nikola Tesla

What we now want is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth, and the elimination of egoism and pride which is always prone to plunge the world into primeval barbarism and strife... Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment...

Nas

Respect all fear none my pride is everything

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Only in recent history has "working hard" signaled pride rather than shame for lack of talent, finesse and, mostly, sprezzatura .

Monique Coleman

I really understand the idea of pride and honour. I have that in my family, so I understand it completely.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

To the Muslim woman, the hijab provides a sense of empowerment. It is a personal decision to dress modestly according to the command of a genderless Creator; to assert pride in self, and embrace one's faith openly, with independence and courageous conviction.

Serge Gainsbourg

I am incapable of mediocrity.

Michael Pollan

Of the seven deadly sins, surely it is pride that most commonly afflicts the gardener.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen.

Sholom Aleichem

The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.

Louis Gossett, Jr.

I can do more than anyone suspects. I pride myself on my versatility. It took 32 years of difficult parts, second leads, villains and juveniles. The Oscar changed the quality of the roles I was being offered.

Lorraine Toussaint

I am so proud of Amelia Boynton. I can burst with pride.

Michael Jackson

I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity.

Michael Crichton

All your life, other people will try to take your accomplishments away from you. Don't you take it away from yourself.

Mia Bloom

The terrorists provide an outlet where with just one action, a raped woman can go from being a source of dishonour to her family to being a source of pride in a culture of martyrdom.

Michel de Montaigne

Pride dwells in the thought; the tongue can have but a very little share in it.